There was good news for the Royals on Saturday, but not great.
The results of an MRI done Friday night on Royals catcher Salvador Perez revealed he has a strained intercostal muscle on the right side of his chest. Royals manager Ned Yost breathed a little sigh of relief, because he feared an oblique injury.
“Worst case scenario, it’s half the time (missed relative to an oblique injury),” Yost said. “But we won’t know anything for probably 48 hours to set a time line on it.”
An oblique injury, which affects the muscles that make up the base of a player’s core, connect the bottom rib and the pelvis.